I know it is not fair to write down a thing like this. I am a Dutchman living in France and Canada is one of the countries I probably appreciate most among all countries in the world. It is not strange that many Dutch families migrated to Canada in the fifties and sixties of the last century. Lots of brave Canadians came to the Netherlands to liberate us from the Germans in WW2 and their social climate has always been close to that of the Netherlands (and I am not talking here about the stereotype image of the Netherlands in terms of sex and drugs, because that is highly concentrated in a single town and also highly exagerated).

The reason I am using this title is to provoke the Canadians on this board to wake up and take a strong stand in the middle of recent developments on the Canadian exchanges. A strong herbicide is needed to get rid of a string of extremely nefarious developments on the Canadian exchanges and among the regulatory authorities that seem to be totally absent, while the country's reputation is being hijacked by some private sector institutions which have caught an international fever of indiscriminate greed.

Today I got a strong feeling something is going terribly wrong in Canada. I may be mistaken and I hope so from the deepest of my heart. I hope this feeling gets corrected very rapidly.